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Take A look At This Weird Traffic Problem

by maverick8
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Hey guys,
I was checking the stats one of my affiliates. And was shocked. I have averaged 215 Uniques a day this month, slowly growing normally. I check this an hour ago and i have 570 Uniques. and 1 hour later i have 3677 Uniques. What the hell happened. I can't find where the traffic is coming from. Awestats are not showing anything. I dont have Google Analytics. But seriously considering it now. What do you guys think is happening?
#problem #traffic #weird
  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    Now up to 4,024 Uniques
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  • Profile picture of the author ed.o
    It is quite odd. Definitely put in Google Analytics to see what's up.
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    I have just installed analytics. Does it update in real time?
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  • Profile picture of the author testaccount9998
    Yea put Google Analytics on and tell us what it turns out to be.

    It is probably either:

    -You got Dugg

    -You got Stubmled heavily

    or

    -You are suddenly ranking very high for a popular keyword for some reason

    -You got a link featured on the front page of a huge site (i.e. ezine, wordpress.com, etc)


    Just enjoy the ride and try to convert the traffic!


    Rebtl

    EDIT: No G.A. will take about 24 hours to update. If you are using wordpress for the site download the statpress plugin. It is somewhat inaccurate but updates in real time and you should be able to figure out where this rush is coming from
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  • Profile picture of the author zen_affiliate
    I see a traffic anomaly? I look into my server logs. Often find interesting activity there, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    Well the traffic is now at U: 7,352 views: 24,258. which is about the normal UV to Views ratio for this affiliate. But it's not converting. Which is a shame. But maybe it's slow processing the sales. Or maybe it's a tracking issue from the affiliate side, which is what i think is going on. Do you guys think i should contact them about this?
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  • Profile picture of the author testaccount9998
    I don't know about you, but if I got over 7300 hits in less than an hour and half (when you originally posted) I would be busting my @$$ to figure out how to convert that traffic if it wasn't.

    Just my two cents

    Rebtl
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    Don't worry i am making small alterations to the site trying to convert this traffic. if it is actually real traffic. I have made 4 sales during all this (ratio of 1:2,024 hahaha not good). which is not ideal, considering the traffic. I generally average 3-5 sales with this affiliate. Thats why i am leaning towards fake traffic or a tracking problem
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  • Profile picture of the author testaccount9998
    That kinda why I thought it might be digg or stumble type traffic. Social networking sites like that which have a semi-internet savvy audience convert notoriously bad.
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick8
    I think your probably right. Well it's been weirdly exciting
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  • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
    Check out who's linking to your site

    link:Your-Site-Dot-Com

    Then determine where it's coming from...

    Social sites tend to go that route once you get their top spots...There was even a story of 10k hits in several hours just because one article got top post in reddit.

    You're lucky you converted something out of it..

    Continue and good luck..

    Do check where it's coming though..so you could rinse and repeat...

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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
    I got it once. My website traffic jumped at least 50% for 2 weeks and then it died down.

    No stumble, no digg, no social networking. Till now no clue at all.

    My only conclusion is that someone made an offline advertising and put the wrong URL, which turned out to be mine.
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  • Profile picture of the author CMartin
    A few years ago I had one affiliate "sending" about 60,000 uniques a month (for a few months) and not converting one single sale

    What I discovered is that he was using a page to promote several products and using hidden affiliate links to cookie the users (cookie stuff) and... he was using that page on a site that rewards users to see a page for X seconds and get some credits in order to show their own pages to other users and so on. Obviously, users weren't interested to check any offers but to get their credits.

    The only bonus to my site is that it got a pretty good ranking at Alexa.

    Carlos
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  • Profile picture of the author zen_affiliate
    Over 1 1/2 weeks I saw intermittant spikes of 300%+ in traffic with no corollary increase in $. Didn't make sense(especially with the quality of my niches, content & offers) but, then again, scrapers & cracking scripts don't possess any sentience. They just bang away at your site, chewing up bandwidth, snagging your ad copy....


    ...or worse.

    If your site uses a CMS, check your usage logs(which you ought to be doing on a regular basis, anyway) for a cracking script iterating through password combinations.
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